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''[[Sewer Shark]]'' is a first-person [[Shoot
Set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], it centers around "sewer jockeys", exterminators hired to clean the sewers of dangerous mutant vermin [[Rule of Cool|using flying ships and gatling guns]]. Gameplay-wise, it's fairly average rail shooter - mostly, it's known for being the first video game for a game console to use [[Full Motion Video]] for its primary gameplay and for its memorable cutscenes.
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* [[A Space Marine Is You|A Sewer Jockey Is You]]
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]
* [[Action Girl]]: Falco, though you never technically get to see her in actual...you know...ACTION. Her badassery is pretty much implied through the opening intro, where both she AND Ghost basically tell you that any LIVING pilots automatically get conferred the title of [[Badass]] in the sewers.
** She gets kidnapped by Stenchler later on as well, so she seems to lean more towards [[Faux Action Girl]].
* [[
* [[Attack of the
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: '''''GIANT MUTANT BRAIN-EATING FIREFLIES'''''
* [[Bad Boss]]: Stenchler
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* [[Exposition Fairy]]: Catfish
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Commissioner Stenchler
* [[Follow That Car!]]: The player and Ghost tailing the "Crazy Looking Thing" through the sewers to navigate Sector 19.
* [[Forbidden Zone]]: Sector 19. {{spoiler|Stenchler has it off-limits because it's what actually leads to Solar City.}}
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Amazing how many of those giant mutant fireflies Stenchler had crammed into that tiny box he lifted with no difficulty.
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* [[Gatling Good]]: Your regular gun, but also [[Its All There in the Manual|Sweet Little 16]]. There's even an awesome video of Sweet Little 16 in action.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Girl Friday declares mutiny on Stenchler just before the whole brain-eating fireflies thing. In fact, he uses them to drive her and her supporters away.}}
* [[Hey,
** [[Hey,
* [[Incoming Ham]]: "WELCOME TO THE SEWERS PUNK!" Has the added benefit of being yelled ''directly'' into the camera during an uncomfortable closeup, as is the case with literally every other line of Underwood's dialogue. The intro is nothing but Underwood [[
* [[Jerkass]]: Stenchler
* [[The Lancer]]: Ghost (the "greatest co-pilot to ever shoot the tubes"), though he's something of an inversion because of his mentor-like experience and the fact that {{spoiler|HE'S the one who gets the girl, Falco, in the end.}} Of course, there's MANY other tropes that Ghost fits into simultaneously, but most notably [[Cynical Mentor]].
* [[Mad Libs Dialogue]] "The critter's at... three... niner... three."
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Girl Friday, if the player performs well enough, will compliment his "virtuoso performance on a joystick."
* [[Mix
* [[Mutants]]: Most of the sewer vermin are giant mutant animals, which include '''''[[Running Gag|GIANT MUTANT BRAIN-EATING FIREFLIES]]'''''.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: A somewhat literal example - Stenchler's "office" is a facade, and at the end he tries to flee by running through the nonexistant fourth wall.
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** Thankfully, after a certain point, the required score is dropped altogether. Unfortunately, this is at the last two levels of the game.
** At one point, Ghost will order you to get ready and fire your weapon during a test. If you assume that this isn't an interactive portion of the game and flub it, Ghost gets totally pissed off at you, fails you, and the game's credits roll.
* [[One
** Forgetting the sequence of turns given to you at the start of most sections results in a crash.
*** This gets worse in two cases - in one case, you're only given the direction as audio. In the other, you're following a bird and have to make the turns when it does.
** Missing an exploding enemy causes your ship to detonate.
*** Additionally, failing to vent after destroying a certain amount of the same enemies also causes your ship to detonate.
* [[Only Known
** Girl Friday, although she doesn't even get the acknowledgment of having her name said or acknowledged in the game itself, you've gotta check the credits.
* [[Palmtree Panic]]: Your intended destination, Solar City, although it isn't playable.
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* [[Robot Buddy]]: Catfish.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Among gaming's most entertaining to watch.
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* [[Shoot
* [[Stock Footage]]: Sort of makes sense, since it's in a huge sewer system, but you won't see a lick of footage that isn't recycled in later parts of the game. Often several times.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Your ship on a frustratingly frequent basis.
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* [[This Is Sparta]]!: "SHOOT THE TUBES DOGMEAT!"
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: Your ship runs on an energy meter, and if it depletes, you automatically lose. There are 7 recharge stations in the entire game, and at each of them you have to make either a left or right turn into (and no, there is no turn indicator for these at the on-screen direction pad). The exact turns you need to make for each one is static (and thus, can be written down), but the only indication is a green light that shows up too late for you to make the turn. You can afford to miss every other one, though.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]
* [[Villainous Glutton]]: Stenchler is ''always'' eating.
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